
Europe: 1800 – 1900

The first Pre-Raphaelite painting by Sir John Everett Millais.

Millais's wife referred to this stunning painting as "full of beauty and without subject."
John Everett Millais, Spring (Apple Blossoms)

Muscles, morals, and mongrels help to illustrate the stratification of social class in Victorian England.
Ford Madox Brown, Work

Stained glass was an important medium for Burne-Jones, and William Morris was his ideal partner.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, stained glass windows at ...

The Last of England is a poignant reminder of the journey made by millions of people during the 19th century.
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England

Niépce's heliograph is the earliest surviving camera-made photograph.
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window ...

Achieving clear daguerreotypes from the unprecedented process of photographing through a telescope was anything but easy.
John Whipple, William Bond, and George Bond, ...

Rodin transformed scandal into success.
Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze

Baldus’s Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles aspired to use photography to make an imagined reality visible, tangible, and therefore achievable.
Édouard Baldus, Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles

How does this painting by Claude Monet achieve such simplicity and complexity at the same time?
Monet, Wheatstacks (Snow Effect, Morning)
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Behind this iconic painting by Vincent van Gogh is the artist’s inspiring story about healing.
Van Gogh, Irises
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Have you ever wondered what it took to take a photograph in the 1800s?
Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion
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Galton, who founded the Eugenics movement made composite portraits to validate his stereotypes.
Francis Galton, eugenics, and photography

By the early 1930s, Broncia Koller’s career was lost to art history, despite her extraordinary artistic talent and insight.
Broncia Koller, Sitting (Seated Nude Marietta)

In The Scapegoat, Hunt created one of the most unusual paintings of the Victorian period.
William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat

Sopheap Pich on Vincent van Gogh's drawings
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Victorian art is often dismissed as overly sentimental and nowhere is this more apparent than in Bubbles.
John Everett Millais, Bubbles

Napoleon masterfully manipulated his image, and this painting meant for Parisian audiences is pure propaganda.